To view pictures and film clips please go to:
hlcpicsandvids.blogspot.com

Friday, May 29, 2009

Malama Pono and 'Ulumua


Haumana and Makua,

Take Care and move forward or progress well...that would be my translation for the Title of this Post.

Email me anytime feki54@gmail.com for some help. Use me as a resource as I have taught each of you to do. Please continue doing your very best in all you do.

You can turn in your LLE's, Book Reports and approved additions to your projects by Friday June 5th, 2009. After that I will no longer grade any items from students of Hakipu'u Learning Center.

I hope the best for each of you as you continue in life. If I have caused any undue difficulties for you (students and parents) please excuse my weaknesses and mahalo for your patience with me.

Among all that you have learned remember that your academics is best coupled with good character and wise observations. Again keep in touch and email me anytime.

And lastly Hiki Mai:

HIKI MAI E NA PUA I KA LA’IE
COME FORWARD AND APPEAR YOU PRECIOUS FLOWERS ARISING IN THE
CALMNESS OF THIS SPECIAL DAY


KE PI’I A’E LA KA MAUNA KI’EKI’E

EACH OF YOU ARE TAKING UP THE CHALLENGE OF NOT SIMPLY CLIMBING
A HIGH MOUNTAIN BUT YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO CLIMB THE HIGHEST AND
MOST MAJESTIC MOUNTAIN OF ALL


HA’A MAI NA KAMA ME KA MAKUA

DANCE FORWARD YOU CHILDREN OF YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER

HE WEHI PULAMA A’O KE KUPUNA
FOR IS IT NOT SO THAT YOU OUR CHILDREN ARE SO VERY PRECIOUS, IN
FACT, YOU ARE THE MOST PRECIOUS ADORNMENT WORN AROUND THE
NECK OF YOUR ANCESTORS


E KA’I MAI ANA E KA’I MAI ANA

COME FORWARD COME FORWARD FOR THERE ARE MANY ROADS FOR
YOU TO CHOOSE…

E HAHAI I KA LEO O KA HAKU E
BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE VOICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, FOR HE WILL
ALWAYS KEEP YOU, PROTECT YOU, AND SHOW YOU THE WAY.


Aloha Nui,
Kumu Feki

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Most of our 'Ohana Blogs


to see other HLC student blogs please visit hlcbloggers.blogspot.com

kaili
451fahrenheitkaili.blogspot.com
Kakauvstattoo.blogspot.com
Kailialoha-hauntedhawaiiannights.blogspot.com

ka'imi
haleonakoareadingclass.blogspot.com
leafakatonga.blogspot.com
blueskinofthesea.blogspot.com
childerenstory.blogspot.com
kamehameha1.blogspot.com
hawaiianforce.blogspot.com

kendra
fahrenheit451kendras.blogspot.com
kendrarainwater.blogspot.com
deathbybikini.blogspot.com

lauren
drylandkalo.blogspot.com
bradbury111.blogspot.com
hauntedhawaiiannights.blogspot.com

caitlyn
absolutelypositivelynotgay.blogspot.com
hottlist.blogspot.com
elloellosmileys.blogspot.com

tama
hlcfahrenheit451.blogspot.com
pendragonbookproject.blogspot.com
hlcearthproject.blogspot.com

isaac
baconisgod.blogspot.com
suehirosan.blogspot.com
suehirosan2.blogspot.com
kamehamehawarriorkingofhawaii.blogspot.com
jamesclavellischirdrensstory.blogspot.com

kyle
bloodredsun-kamehameha.blogspot.com
childrensstorieys.blogspot.com

josh
underthebloodredsunjoshcarroll.blogspot.com
cruz4life.blogspot.com
joshdanielcarroll.blogspot.com
kamehameha123.blogspot.com
islandofthebluedolphin.blogspot.com
carroll1994.blogspot.com

ka'ainoa
groupbook1.blogspot.com
giddyupnalo.blogspot.com
bookproject1.blogspot.com

schae Ann
readingclasshaleonakoa.blogspot.com
mywrestlingexperience.blogspot.com
lovelybonesassesment.blogspot.com

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Makai Lab Assessment Tomorrow!

Aloha Kakou,

As we come to the end of the school year we prepare to finish projects and prepare for assessments such as that for our Makai lab tomorrow.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tama's other Reply

Dr. Bartlett,
Thank You very much for your reply. You have helped me move further into my project. I also need your help with the following question.
"What are the good and bad ways humans affect the earth?" I welcome your insight on this question. I would also ask if you could direct me to any other resources that might be helpful to me and my research.

Mahalo,
Tama Moors

P.S. I have recently started my blog. Within 15 days my blog will be up and running with lots of information. Your comments are very welcome on my blog page. The URL is http://hlcearthproject.blogspot.com/.


Tama,

There are many ways in which humans interact with the Earth. Whether
these are good or bad depends very much on the perspective we take to
our relationship with nature. We mine minerals and resources (iron,
gold, diamonds, coal, etc.) from the Earth. This processes inevitably
alters the environment and landscape in the areas where the mining
takes place (which could be viewed as bad) but also provides jobs and
the resources we require to build the many things we have today (which
could be argued is a good thing). Part of what makes making decisions
about how best to treat the Earth is the balance between the damage we
might due to the local environment and the benefits we accrue from
doing that damage. Making good decisions, in other words, is not
formulaic - it requires wisdom and communication, foresight and an
understanding of history.

Hope that helps,

Prof. Bartlett


Marshall Bartlett
Assistant Professor of Physics and Earth Sciences
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Brigham Young University - Hawaii
Department of Biochemistry and Physical Sciences
55-220 Kulanui Street
Box 1967
Laie, HI 96762

Please give me feedback. Also I would like to ask if any of you could help me break this down and define it.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Ho'ike Tomorrow!


Aloha Kakou,

Please come to our Ho'ike tomorrow at 5:00pm at Hale Akoakoa on the WCC campus.

We have 9 students presenting tomorrow. They are:

Mahina
Ka'imi
Schae Ann
Kaili
Isaac
Kendra
Ka'ainoa
Lauren
Caitlyn

Great work everyone!

Friday, May 15, 2009

The Ten Sins of PowerPoint




Aloha Haumana,

Please read the following to learn more about using PowerPoint effectively.

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http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/21cp/syllabus/powerpoint_tips2.htm

http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/21cp/syllabus/powerpoint_tips.htm
Gary Chapman, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Showing things to an audience during a speech is as old as public speaking. In nearly all cases, showing an audience a physical thing, an actual object, is the best way to engage an audience’s attention. But when this isn’t possible, presentation software like PowerPoint (or Apple’s Keynote software) allows the modern public speaker to show things to an audience on a large screen.
What has been turned upside-down over the past decade’s spread of PowerPoint, for most PowerPoint users, is that the “speech” is now mostly what’s on the screen, rather than what is spoken. In other words, the proper relation of the illustration tool to the speech has been reversed. In the opinion of many people, this has tragically damaged the art of public speaking. No one can imagine Abraham Lincoln nor Martin Luther King, Jr., needing PowerPoint. But today many people who give oral presentations cannot imagine doing so without PowerPoint.
In the interest of restoring some balance to the use of PowerPoint, without rejecting its use altogether, here are some suggestions for how to use PowerPoint effectively.


Ten Thoughts About How to Use PowerPoint Effectively

1. PowerPoint, when displayed via a projector, is a useful tool for showing audiences things that enhance what the speaker is saying. It is a useful tool for illustrating the content of a speech, such as by showing photos, graphs, charts, maps, etc., or by highlighting certain text from a speech, such as quotations or major ideas. It should not be used as a slide-show outline of what the speaker is telling the audience.

2. Slides used in a presentation should be spare, in terms of how much information is on each slide, as well as how many slides are used. A rule of thumb is to put no more than eight lines of text on a slide, and with no more than eight to ten words per line. In most cases, less is more, so four lines of text is probably better. Don’t display charts or graphs with a lot of information—if it’s useful for the audience to see such things, pass them out as handouts.

3. Unless you’re an experienced designer, don’t use the transition and animation “tricks” that are built into PowerPoint, such as bouncing or flying text. By now, most people roll their eyes when they see these things, and these tricks add nothing of value to a presentation.

4. Above all, use high-contrast color schemes so that whatever is on your slides is readable. Unless you are a talented graphic designer, use the templates that come with PowerPoint or Keynote, and keep it simple—high concept design in a slide presentation doesn’t help in most circumstances, unless you’re in the fashion or design fields. If you use graphics or photos, try to use the highest quality you can find or afford—clip art and low-resolution graphics blown up on a screen usually detract from a presentation.

5. Rehearse your PowerPoint presentation and not just once. Don’t let PowerPoint get in the way of your oral presentation, and make sure you know how it works, what sequence the slides are in, how to get through it using someone else’s computer, etc. Make sure that you can deliver your presentation if PowerPoint is completely unavailable; in other words, make sure you can give your speech without your PowerPoint presentation.

6. Get used to using black slides. There are few speeches that need something displayed on the screen all the time. If you include a black slide in your presentation, your audience will refocus on you, rather than on the screen, and you can direct them back to the screen when you have something else to show them. Put a black screen at the end of your presentation, so that when you’re done, the PowerPoint presentation is finished and off the screen.

7. Concentrate on keeping the audience focused on you, not on the screen. You can do this by using slides sparingly, standing in front of the audience in a way that makes them look at you, and, if possible, going to the screen and using your hand or arm to point out things on a slide. If you expect to be using PowerPoint a lot, invest in a remote “clicker” that lets you get away from the computer and still drive your presentation. If you don’t have one of those, it’s better to ask someone to run the presentation than to be behind a screen and keyboard while you talk.

8. If you show something on a computer that requires moving the cursor around, or flipping from one screen to another, or some other technique that requires interaction with the computer itself, remember that people in the audience will see things very differently on the projection screen than you see them on the computer screen. Keep motion on the screen to a minimum, unless you’re showing a movie or a video. It’s better to show a static screenshot of a Web page, embedded on a slide, than to call up the Web page in a browser on a computer. If you want to point out something on a Web page, go to the screen and point at it—don’t jiggle the cursor around what you want people to look at: their heads will look like bobble-headed dolls.

9. Don’t “cue” the audience that listening to your speech means getting through your PowerPoint presentation. If the audience sees that your PowerPoint presentation is the structure of your speech, they’ll start wondering how many slides are left. Slides should be used asynchronously within your speech, and only to highlight or illustrate things. Audiences are bored with oral presentations that go from one slide to the next until the end. Engage the audience, and use slides only when they are useful.

10. Learn how to give a good speech without PowerPoint. This takes practice, which means giving speeches without PowerPoint. Believe it or not, public speaking existed before PowerPoint, and many people remember it as being a lot better then than it is now. A few people use presentation software in extremely effective ways—Steve Jobs and Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig are two examples. Al Gore’s use of Keynote in the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” was a good model. But these three examples don’t look at all like the way most people use PowerPoint. Avoiding bad PowerPoint habits means, first and foremost, becoming a good public speaker.


The Ten Sins of PowerPoint


1. PowerPoint is now used frequently as a speaker's "crutch," especially when the speaker is repeating or simply following what's displayed on a PowerPoint slide. This has been shown to diminish a listener's attention, and at the very least it shifts attention from the speaker to the screen, which detracts from the speaker's ability to engage with his or her audience. Speakers who simply recite what is on their PowerPoint slides are notoriously dull public speakers.

2. PowerPoint users routinely put more information on a slide than slides should display. PowerPoint is best used as a tool of illustration—to show audiences things that supplement and enhance what the speaker is saying. Unfortunately, many PowerPoint users put so much information on a single slide that the typical audience member can't read it easily, or doesn't even try. (Such slides are humorously known as "eye charts.") And the speaker has lost the audience’s attention to its frustration.

3. PowerPoint contains "tricks" of slide transition or text and graphics animation that are almost all unnecessary, distracting, and too “cute.” Tricks such as text that bounces into the screen, or shoots into the slide from the side margins, or flips upside-down, etc., add nothing to the presentation and usually detract from its professionalism.

4. Everyone has seen a PowerPoint presentation that exhibits an awful, sometimes even embarrassing, lack of design sense, especially when the presentation is displayed in low-contrast colors that make it difficult to read. Nothing destroys a presentation’s effectiveness more thoroughly than when the audience is straining to see what’s on the screen, or when people are wincing because of a bad design or color scheme.

5. PowerPoint routinely does something that trips up a speaker and suddenly the speech is stalled, or it becomes a series of mutterings about what has gone wrong with PowerPoint. When PowerPoint’s behavior gets in the way of delivering a speech, the speech has gone wrong in a way that is all too familiar.

6. Many speakers today assume, without thinking about it, that when they use PowerPoint they should have a slide on the screen during the entire presentation. Or they simply leave a slide on the screen, again without thinking about it. A common result is that the audience is forced to stare at a PowerPoint slide that has lost any connection to what is being said.

7. Because speakers who use PowerPoint often assume, again without thinking about it, that their audience will be, and should be, looking at the projector screen, they put little or no effort into their own visual engagement with the audience. “Screen accompanied by still-life of speaker” is unfortunately the most common picture of using PowerPoint for oral presentations.

8. Speakers who use a projector attached to a computer routinely forget that the sizes of the computer screen and that of the projection screen are vastly different—the latter is a multiple of the former. This means that when a speaker whips a cursor around on the computer’s screen, audience members get whiplash trying to follow the cursor around on the projection screen. Plus, what seems “normal” to do on a computer screen often looks like an incomprehensible psychedelic light show on a projection screen. Speakers who orate while simultaneously operating a computer are almost certain to lose their audience.

9. Audiences sense when a speaker is dependent on PowerPoint and they quickly grasp that the content of the speech is tied to the length of the PowerPoint presentation. This shifts the audience’s attention to how many slides there are, or, if the slides are delivered as handouts, how many slides are left to go—i.e., they are no longer listening to the speech.

10. People who use PowerPoint often think that preparing an oral presentation means preparing a PowerPoint presentation, and then delivering that, with accompanying oral commentary. Needless to say, the art of preparing a good speech is lost, or may never be developed in the first place. What PowerPoint can do should not be the starting point of an effective oral presentation.

Outline for Presentations

Aloha Haumana,

Below is the text for an Outline for Presentations. Please feel Free to refer to these now and in the future at any time.

Mahalo!

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See text below image...



GENERIC OUTLINE FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS

INTRODUCTION
I. Attention-getting statement - gain the attention of the audience by using a quotation, telling a brief story or humorous anecdote, asking a question, etc.
II. Thesis statement - state the specific purpose of your presentation here.
III. Preview statement - overview of all of your main points. What you will share.

BODY
I. First main point
A. Subpoint
1. Sub-subpoint
2. Sub-subpoint
B. Subpoint
1. Sub-subpoint
2. Sub-subpoint
3. Sub-subpoint
II. Second main point
A. Subpoint
1. Sub-subpoint
2. Sub-subpoint
B. Subpoint
1. Sub-subpoint
2. Sub-subpoint
3. Sub-subpoint
C. Subpoint….

Note: The number of main points, subpoints and sub-subpoints you use will vary depending on how much information you have to convey and how much detail and supporting material you need to use. Subpoints and sub-subpoints are comprised of the supporting material you gather in your research.
****You should rarely have more than five main points in any presentation.


CONCLUSION
I. Summary statement - review all of your main points.
II. Concluding statement - prepare a closing statement that ends your presentation
smoothly.

Ho'ike Wednesday May 20th, 2009

'Ulumua

Aloha Kakou,

I hope everyone is doing well with the last two weeks of school remaining. We have many students presenting in Ho'ike this coming Wednesday the 20th of May.

The students we have presenting are:

Schae Ann - Wrestling Experience
Ka'ainoa - Independent Stores
Caitlyn - Plantations in Hawai'i
Lauren - Lo'i Kalo
Kendra - Tourism
Kaili - Kakau
Joshua - Gyotaku
Isaac - Telescopes on Mauna Kea

And we may also have Mahina and Ka'imi presenting on their trips to China and Maui with Na Hoa Aina.

We are focusing on getting in our work and I am focusing on making sure everyone is awarded credit for what they have done. I will meet with each of you to make sure we have the correct credit amounts.

Keep up the great work!
Kumu Feki
feki54@gmail.com

Monday, May 11, 2009

3 Weeks left...


Aloha Kakou,

I would like to encourage everyone to do their very best for this last stretch of school.

The items we should be focusing on are:

1. Projects (Student or Staff Driven and Malama)
2. Book Reports (.25 credit each, no maximum)
3. Lifelong Learning Experiences (.10 each, 10/year maximum)
4. Following up on any credit earned to make sure it is recorded in Project Foundry

We need to be prepared when we come to school. There are too many students who do not come prepared with our basic materials such as:

1. Student Planner
2. Writing Utensils (Pen, Pencil and other types of pens)
3. Paper or a Notebook
4. Project Binder and all notes

Also, every student needs to make sure that he/she has the Ho'ike/Presentation credit which is 3 presentations a year.

If there are any questions you may have please email me at feki54@gmail.com or call during school hours at 808-235-9155.

Mahalo Nui!
Kumu Feki

Monday, May 4, 2009

Welcome Back Mahina!!!

As well as everyone else who went on the China Excursion!!!
(with the exception of Uncle Shorty, Aunty Susan and Kamalu home on the 10th)



My Favorite Picture!!!! LOL!!!

Tama's Research on the Earth - Dr. Bartlett

Here is the email correspondence that Tama had with Dr. Marshall Bartlett a Geophysicist currently teaching at BYU - Hawai'i. Please feel free to use Tama's example in your search for information from a content expert. Aloha...

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Tama Moors wrote:
> Aloha Dr. Marshall Bartlett,
> My name is Tama Moors.I am 14 years old and in the 8th grade. I attend
> Hakipu'u Learning Center public charter school in Kaneohe. I am doing a
> project on how the Earth works. My teacher is Feki Po'uha and he referred
> you to me as a resource for my project. I would appreciate it if you would
> share some of your insight and expertise in response to these six questions.
> I will be using other resources to also address these questions.
>
> How does the Earth work?
>
> What is the Earth made of?
>
> What is the Earth's atmosphere made of?
>
> What are the different internal layers of the Earth and how do the work?
>
> What is the data of the Earth? (size, scientific name, age, etc)
>
> How does gravitation work?
>
> My project is only a few weeks long and as such I would request your
> response by next week or at your convenience.
>
> Mahalo.
>
> P.S. I will be posting this information on a blog. I haven't started it yet
> but when I do I will email you the blog address. Please let me know if you
> have any objections to this.
>
> Class Blog Link: haleonakoa.blogspot.com


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From: Marshall Bartlett
Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Aloha!
To: Tama Moors


Tama,

Thank you for getting in touch with. I will try to answer your
questions as concisely as I can - though you are asking some tough
ones! These are questions that could easily (and do easily) fill many
volumes.

1. How does the Earth work?

The answer to this question depends, to a large extent, by what we
mean by "work". At one level, the Earth can be seen (as it often is
by geologists) as a system that produces heat internally through the
decay of radio-isotopes of Uranium, Thorium, and Potassium. This heat
is then dissipated to the exterior of the Earth through conduction,
convection, and latent heat exchange. The result of this process is
near constant motion of the surface layers of Earth in the process
known as plate tectonics. The result of all this motion includes
events such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

Viewed from this perspective, plate tectonics (and the associated
earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.) "work" analogous to how the radiator in
a car works to rid the engine of heat. Plate tectonics is a cooling
system for our Earth which is constantly being heated by its own
internal chemical constituents.

However, as I mentioned, this is not the only way to think about how
the Earth "works." There are also complex chemical, physical, and
biological interactions between the major Earth system components of
the geosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, the cryosphere, and
the biosphere. In many ways, these interactions are of more interest
to us as human beings since it is these systems that we depend upon
for our survival.

2. What is the Earth made of?

The Earth is similar in chemical composition to the "Terrestrial"
planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Our planet is primarily
composed of the elements Iron (~32%), Oxygen (~30%), Silicon (~15%),
and Magnesium (~14%), with lesser amounts of all of the remaining
elements on the periodic table. Due to a long history (~4.5 Billion
Years!) of chemical evolution, the exterior parts of the Earth (where
we live) are dominated by silicate rocks, composed primarily of oxygen
and silicon. The majority of the iron in the Earth is found in its
deep interior.

3. What is the Earth's atmosphere made of?

Earth's atmosphere is composed primarily of molecular nitrogen (~78%)
and Oxygen (~21%). The remaining 1% is made of what we refer to as
"trace gases" such as Argon, Carbon Dioxide, Neon, Helium, Methane,
and several others. The Earth's atmosphere has changed radically over
the long history of Earth and is significantly influenced by the
presence of living organisms on our planet.

4. What are the different internal layers of the Earth and how do the work?

The Earth is divided along two different classification schemes; one
related to the rheology (flow characteristics) of the materials
involved and the other related to the chemical composition of the
materials. The chemical segregation into a light, buoyant crust on
the outside of the Earth overlying a denser mantle and core is a
result of gravitational separation of the materials, just like when
oil and water separate in salad dressing.

5. What is the data of the Earth? (size, scientific name, age, etc)

Rather than quote all the numbers for you, have a look at the data box
on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth.

6. How does gravitation work?

This is a much more complicated question than it sounds! The short
answer is that we don't really know; what we do know is how to
accurately characterize the effects of gravity. There are two
competing theories in physics today for how gravity works: one
suggests that gravity results from the exchange of tiny particles
(called gravitons) between all objects that have mass; the other idea
is that gravity is a natural geometric consequence of the bending of a
"space-time-fabric" that underlies nature. Both are useful working
models of gravity but have some fundamental inconsistencies that have
yet to be worked out. Something for you to work on!

Hopefully those answers will give you enough material to get your
project up and running. There is lots of great info on the internet
(try a Google search for "Plate Tectonics" or "Earth's composition"
for example). Let me know if I can be of any more assistance.

Good luck!

Prof. Bartlett


Marshall Bartlett
Assistant Professor of Physics and Earth Sciences
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Brigham Young University - Hawaii
Department of Biochemistry and Physical Sciences
55-220 Kulanui Street
Box 1967
Laie, HI 96762

email: bartletm@byuh.edu
phone: (808)675-3812
fax: (808)675-3825
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Keahiakahoe


E 'Ulumua Kakou!
Let us find our way forward together!


 
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